discipline
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English, from Old English, from Old French descipline, from Latin disciplina (“instruction”) and discipulus (“pupil”), from discere (“to learn”), from Proto-Indo-European *dek- (“(cause to) accept”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
discipline (plural disciplines)
- A controlled behaviour; self-control
- An enforced compliance or control
- 1956, Michael Arlen, chapter 1/1/2, “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days[1]:
- The masters looked unusually stern, but it was the sternness of thought rather than of discipline.
- 1956, Michael Arlen, chapter 1/1/2, “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days[1]:
- A systematic method of obtaining obedience
- A state of order based on submission to authority
- A punishment to train or maintain control
- A set of rules regulating behaviour
- A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification
- A specific branch of knowledge or learning
- A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs, or a sub-category of said activity.
Synonyms [edit]
Antonyms [edit]
- (controlled behaviour et al.): spontaneity
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Translations [edit]
controlled behaviour, self-control
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punishment
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set of rules
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specific branch or knowledge or learning
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category in which a certain activity belongs
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Verb [edit]
discipline (third-person singular simple present disciplines, present participle disciplining, simple past and past participle disciplined)
- (transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.
- (transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.
- (transitive) To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.
- (transitive) To impose order on someone.
Synonyms [edit]
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Translations [edit]
to train someone by instruction and practice
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to teach someone to obey authority
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to punish someone in order to (re)gain control
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to impose order on someone
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Dutch [edit]
Noun [edit]
discipline f (plural disciplines, diminutive disciplinetje)
- discipline, sanction
- discipline, self-control
- discipline, branch
Synonyms [edit]
- tucht
- (self-control) zelfbeheersing
- (branch) tak
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French [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
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Noun [edit]
discipline f (plural disciplines)
- discipline, sanction
- discipline, self-control
- discipline, branch
Derived terms [edit]
Verb [edit]
discipline
- first-person singular present indicative of discipliner
- third-person singular present indicative of discipliner
- first-person singular present subjunctive of discipliner
- first-person singular present subjunctive of discipliner
- second-person singular imperative of discipliner
Italian [edit]
Noun [edit]
discipline f pl
- Plural form of disciplina
Spanish [edit]
Verb [edit]
discipline (infinitive disciplinar)
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of disciplinar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of disciplinar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of disciplinar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of disciplinar.
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- English terms derived from Middle English
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- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
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- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English verbs
- English abstract nouns
- Dutch nouns
- French nouns
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- French countable nouns
- French verb forms
- Italian plurals
- Spanish verb forms
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- Spanish verb singular forms
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- Spanish verb formal forms
- Spanish forms of verbs ending in -ar
- Spanish verb subjunctive forms
- Spanish verb first-person forms
- Spanish verb present forms
- Spanish verb third-person forms
